Larry Taylor

For the first time, Chicago's Dept. of Culture and Special Events sponsored a blues festival on the West Side, Sept.12. Larry Taylor and the Soul Blues Healers opened. They were the Driving Wheel

Summer of 2021, during the reopening after COVID lockdowns, Larry Taylor and the Soul Blues Healers took the blues to the southwest Chicago neighborhood of Beverly, to sing June 12` at Nicky's thanks to the Beverly Arts Alliance and Chicago…

Swedish blues writer Tommy Lofgren and photographer Erik Lindahl collected some priceless history on their 1980 tour across America, just released in a book "44 Days on the Blues Freeway."  They captured photos and notes about blues people -from Charles…

Larry Taylor is one of 13 highly qualified artists named April 3, 2020 to receive the city’s Esteemed Artist Award, a special new $10,000 grant for career expenses including studio rental, supplies, travel and equipment. 

In celebration of 2020…

LARRY TAYLOR has a featured interview in Chicago blues critic's newest book "Blues Legacy" in which Whiteis points out Larry's direct link to little known,but very significant musicians who helped create the sounds of Chicago blues. Also featured in the…

See Larry Taylor's 50 minute CAN-TV interview, shown repeatedly to the Chicago audience in 2019, in which he talks about his West Side blues legacy . The program shows parts of his life performances inside and outside his home community.

Larry Taylor is increasingly called on to spotlight the illustrious, but little reported history of West Side blues.  In 2019 he has appeared in an hour-long live CAN-TV studio interview featuring clips of his performance. See it here on YouTube

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Larry Taylor, sponsored by the neighborhood nonprofit group BUILD, is doing five Light the Night shows on weekends in June-July 2018 in a small West Side playground, Hubbard Park.  These free, all ages shows are aimed at bringing generations together…

        A heartfelt sendoff, funeral service and memorial jam for Michael "Sleepy" Riley, who played bass in Larry's band in the early 2000s and appeared on both Larry Taylor CDs.  Writeup in the West Side neighborhood paper, Austin Weekly News

Larry Taylor took Spain by storm in March 2018--from the capital of Madrid to fun places like Alicante, Valencia, Tarragona and appeared on radio 3 in Madrid. Thanks to guitarist/promoter JayBee Rodriguez and all the great musicians and fans in…

The all original EP/CD "New Chicago Sounds of Larry Taylor" has hit the retail market on the West Side's main drag.  Marie and Charlie Joe Henderson, proprietors, are selling the record at the city's best "dusties" shop, Out of the…

Larry Taylor brings the blues among neighbors in a concert Aug. 25, 2017 in a tribute to West Side blues in the beautiful  Columbus Park Refectory . Everyone smiles and shakes their shoulders to the ZZ Hill favorite "Shade…